slow change
gradual changes over time to fully create or restore an ecosystem
What is succession?
What is the most important function of pioneer species?
To create soil and add nutrients to the
environment.
How does pollution affect biodiversity?
Pollution can degrade habitats, harm species, and reduce
biodiversity by creating unsuitable living conditions.
What are goods from natural resources with financial value to humans called?
Ecosystem services
Natural processes such as nutrient cycling and the creation of soils
Supporting services
What type of succession occurs in an area with no soil?
What is Primary succession
The variety of life in a particular habitat or ecosystem.
What is biodiversity?
A non-native species that spreads widely in a new habitat, often
causing harm to native species and ecosystems.
What is an invasive species?
What are the four categories of ecosystem services?
Provisional services, Regulatory services, Supporting services, Cultural services
Music, art, and architecture born from interactions with nature
Cultural services
What type of succession occurs in an area where soil is already present?
Secondary succession
What does high species diversity indicate?
A healthy ecosystem with a wide variety of species
coexisting.
What is an example of low species diversity?
A marsh ecosystem covered by a single species of
cattail bulrushes.
service that provides
materials and products made directly from natural resources
Provisional services
The study of how organisms interact with their environment.
What is ecology?
What are the first organisms that appear in an ecological community called?
Pioneer species
Why is genetic diversity important?
It allows species to adapt and survive environmental changes.
A species that is critical for the overall health of an ecosystem.
What is a keystone species?
service provided by natural systems that helps stabilize environmental conditions such as climate and air quality
Regulatory services
what? can degrade habitats, harm species, and reduce biodiversity by creating unsuitable living conditions.
what is Pollution